OpenSUSE, Anyone?

[Alma J Wetzker]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

[snip hardware history]

>>I have had no trouble with 250 GB SATA disks with OpenSuse or Gentoo
>>2005.1. They (4 in one box) even worked fine as a logical volume. How
>>are the SATA set in the BIOS? I use mine as JBOD, not RAID of any sort.
> 
> It would depend on the type of controller.  NVIDIA's SATA controller has
> RAID support (albeit limited) which is enabled/disabled in the BIOS.

How do you define "limited"?  I have seen some of the boards that claim 
RAID support for SATA, it seems like an extra transistor or two on the 
controller chip that can be accessed by a windoze driver.

I plan on putting OpenSuSE on my IBM T23 in the next few days (After 
exams).  I like how SuSE 9.2 Pro works on the system now, and I am 
looking forward to a slight shift in Novell mindset reported in the 10.? 
release.  SuSE seems to make more sense to me than anything I have 
installed from RH.  (FC2 on a test machine was the latest.)  Kind of 
like, I can read Pascal and Lisp programs, but I can't keep enough of 
the syntax in my head to program in those languages.  (They are warped 
the wrong direction from my head...)  That is the best thing about 
Linux, you get choices!

     -- Alma